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The Sex That 87% of Women Said Was the Hottest They'd Ever Had

Do you ever feel like all you ever hear is how today's youth are too obsessed with hooking up, and it's basically ruining the world? Eye roll. It's not to say we have any problem with a casual, fun hookup around here (we don't!), and maybe most of us aren't waiting for marriage these days, but it's safe to say we're still pretty into emotional relationships, not just sex. Wouldn't you agree?

Durex recently sent us the results of their “Great Sex Survey” (the survey was conducted by Crowdtap among 2,000 men and women 25 and older) that shows pretty unanimously, people think the best sex comes with "strings attached"—meaning, emotions and trust and all that important stuff that isn't necessarily a part of something casual.

Some of the stats:

87 percent of women said the hottest sex they ever had was with someone they knew and trusted, not a stranger.

95 percent of men said sex is more fulfilling with an emotional connection.

95 percent of women and 96 percent of men agreed that satisfying their partner comes before satisfying themselves.

I mean, really, are you surprised? I hate to bring 50 Shades of Grey back into this after we've finally stopped talking about it every five minutes, but for all that book supposedly causing some kind of sexual awakening among women, it was about one couple emotionally connecting so much they ended up married with a kid in like six months or something. They just had some hot, if repetitively written, sex while doing so. And at least the people in this survey seem to agree that it's not only that sex is more emotionally fulfilling—95 percent of women said getting closer means they can go further in exploring sexual fantasies.

Emotions are so hot right now, you guys.

Do you agree that sex is generally better with someone you connect with and trust? That's no slam on a hot hookup, if you've had some of those too!